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Hi buds,
We're putting the site up at reduced capacity for a couple days while we wait for some new servers to arrive. Due to some bad hardware luck, our content server and backup have both been down for a few days.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[b]YTMND[/b]is a minecraft server on the internet which used to be a "comedy" website with .gifs and jokes. The jokes stopped being funny and no one went there anymore except to play minecraft.

[spoil]okay, but seriously folks, good to be back, hey bad luck max sorry[/spoil]

You put the boom-boom into my heartYou send my soul sky high when your lovin' startsJitterbug into my brainGoes a bang-bang-bang 'til my feet do the sameBut something's bugging youSomething ain't rightMy best friend told me what you did last nightLeft me sleepin' in my bedI was dreaming, but I should have been with you instead.

Wake me up before you go-goDon't leave me hanging on like a yo-yoWake me up before you go-goI don't want to miss it when you hit that highWake me up before you go-go'Cause I'm not plannin' on going soloWake me up before you go-goTake me dancing tonightI wanna hit that high (yeah, yeah)

You take the grey skies out of my wayYou make the sun shine brighter than Doris DayTurned a bright spark into a flameMy beats per minute never been the same

Wake me up before you go-goDon't leave me hanging on like a yo-yoWake me up before you go-goI don't want to miss it when you hit that highWake me up before you go-go'Cause I'm not plannin' on going soloWake me up before you go-goTake me dancing tonightI wanna hit that high (yeah, yeah, baby)

Umfuld appears to be under the impression that, because the Terms of Use do not specify that the use of alternate accounts to upvote/downvote sites, it is acceptable to do what he has done with the alts "Stop-Trolling-A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, and L," along with the others among that lengthy list. Would you mind clarifying whether or not this is an acceptable use of alternate accounts?

Prior to his obvious abuse of the voting system, he claims that he never did such a thing. Whether this is true or not can only be answered by the person who controls this site. But a deletion of those cover votes on NeoMatrixClt sites would certainly reveal a lot, if it doesn't already. He wonders why people have it out for him when the answer is obvious. He thinks he runs this site and has the right to decide what is worthy of the attention of the community and what is not. His recent activity has altered the ratings of several sites that had been near the top of the up and coming, to the point that they will never be seen again (see also, the activity of the alternate accounts belonging to gr33nscr33n). He isn't helping himself when he resorts to childish playground language to refer to the people he doesn't like. So if he's trying to say that a lot of us have broken that fourth rule, he should look at his own history. He's even been banned from commenting next to the likes of sexymofo and JoeyJoeJoe.

Umfuld may feel inclined to bring up the fact that the user formerly known as "JohnnyLurg" has recently registered scores of accounts to downvote his recent sites, notably [site amusedtodeath:site]. But does that give him the right to do the same thing -- to users not involved with that activity?

fucking ignore umfuld already. you just posted a same-ol-song-and-dance style wall of text restating the same side of the same futile argument all you people keep feeding into.

[i]get over it[/i]

i forget who's alt this is. i don't care. it's one of two people.

anyway, umfuld is just a dude who fucks around here and likes to post quality sites once in a while while acting like a douche for the rest. that's why i can relate to him. he really should like me more, but who cares. i certainly do not in the slightest.

and furthermore, it makes you all look scary when you get so heated about this crap.

i spent about a month taking the whole controversy seriously. then, whenever i bitched and complained about him/to him, it was solely for the purpose of getting a rise out of him, provoking pages of hilarious, raging PMs and comment flame wars. heres an example of a premeditated umfuld disaster,

http://ytmnd.com/sites/943388/profile

i highly doubt any of you people harass him for the sole purpose of getting a rise out of someone to keep the ball rolling. that fact is pretty clear.

[i]all of you[/i] [u]clearly[/u] [i]emotionally invested and display a moral concern for fairness among users[/i]

Max, I thought you were going to keep the Minecraft server up, but from what you said I will lose the opportunity to meet people there, people who even use this website. For example, yesterday I was very excited when I found out that a YTMND user was in the world. I wanted to talk to him and play with him a little bit. I'm new at Minecraft so everything about it looks new and beautiful, especially the fact that I can interact with real people. Of course, there's always the real world but it's my choice if I want to go and play in a virtual world. Besides, I'm most probably the only Italian active user here and I bet most of you live in the States, in any case far from that shithole that is Italy, and I wanted to see what is like to play with one of you, without having my words dismissed in an indistinguishable cloud of forced unfunny jokes and pitiful self promotion. I think it's acceptable here to have this behaviour, we can all be characters here. But in Minecraft, how much does a fake and shady "personality" last? In the 3D world you are more human than in a webpage.The impending closure of that Minecraft server will make me reflect about the importance of the real world not based on a computer. There's no switch off for the Universe.

It may be a networking issue. Check the best answer on this support page: http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/clients_lose_connection_with_exeption_disconnect_overflow_after_few_seconds_on_the_server

Are you serious? He has the box in his living room in the year 2011? Wow, no one does that. How much can you get dedicated hosting for these days? Less than $100 per month? Maybe $200? Are you sure you know what you are talking about?

Well, at least you finally manned up to confronting me, instead of just passing messages through Rodheh.

You repeatedly ignore the concept of informing your user base of goings on with the site. A user base that is the sole source of content for your site.

Hardware failures happen. Only gross negligence can lead to backups failing as well. But I digress...

You have missed yet another opportunity in this latest post to correct/clarify/inform your user base regarding your previous post. You know, the one from Nov.05, 2010?...the one where you mentioned actual improvements to the site as well as additional accountability for it's users in the from of additional mods and "moderating with an iron fist"...

I freelance full time, and am the only person doing all the system administration, programming, front end development and support for this site. There [b]isn't[/b] backup hardware, so in that aspect it can't fail! I have been working on the site during almost all of my free time lately, but this bout of hardware issues means I probably won't meet my goal of launching 2.1 in April.

Any response you give that actually contains information is a good thing.

My personal opinion is that all improvements and yes, even a change in the look and feel of the site, should be put on hold so that you can actually appoint trusted users to moderator status (which I feel is in harmony with your intent when you posted last year). All with the goal of actually fostering a more positive (and in my opinion as a result, creative) community.

I do not know what progress you have made with the next edition of the site, but what if you simply released only the new CSS skin(s) for the pages, grafted on to the current site? I am sure that is what most people would appreciate. People are visual creatures.

Hey max, I know you are busy but is there any chance that the hall of fame will be brought back when the next round of site updates happen? If so I suggest giving Anystrom the ability to select what gets put in there. I always see him leaving comments on classic sites that they should be in the hall of fame and I almost always think he is correct in his assessment.